I am a hand in the face...

I was thinking yesterday, after I posted that one entry about the AIM rules and stuff, and from reading Regan and Tommy's blogs about communication, and now Joe's about missing the good old days, how hard it is to keep in touch with everyone, even with all of the tools we have. Yes, it IS the information age, e-mail, IM, text messaging, all of that. So many avenues for us to use to keep in contact with all of our loved ones. Text messaging isn't really used for very much other than quick messages, which are mostly informational..i.e, party at so and so's, dodger game, etc. And on IM, people just sign in and out, drop a quick line, and a lot of converstations are really just very superficial. E-mail: every now and then, I'll get a letter-like e-mail from a friend, telling me what's going on, and how they're doing, and all that. But usually, it's a forward of some sort, or a mass e-mail or e-vite. And it's not like I'm always doing my part to keep in touch either. It's just sad, I think...it seems that we take communication and keeping in touch for granted. And of course, everyone's busy nowadays, and it seems we'll only get busier and busier, what with all of the responsibilities that we already have and will have soon enough, but it only takes a small amount of time to let a friend know what's going on. This was one of my new year's resolutions, to do a better job of keeping in touch with my old friends. And I think I was doing a good job of it at one point, but I have since strayed away from that path. So here we go again...

The ongoing issue..
It seems as though I stand alone on this whole "Is almost enough" issue... I still think it's a matter of perspective, on my part at least. Take a look at these examples:

I almost finished 1st
I almost almost won that game

Okay, so you didn't finish first...but you came in second! Okay, you didn't win the game, but look, you were in a position to win it, it just didn't come out your way. How come no credit is given for the effort? I know to most people, a win is a win and a loss is a loss, but if you played your best, and it just didn't happen, then hey, you take your licks, but you have to be proud of giving it your all. If for some reason you were giving it 110% but couldn't finish the marathon...is it a total loss? I don't think so. I don't know, maybe I'm just trying to hard to put a positive spin on it?

Who needs G-mail?
So now yahoo has provided 1 gig of space to it's users...thereby making g-mail a thing of the past. I never even really came close to using my 100 megs of space, and then 250, and now 1 gig. I think I might be a close to 1% of my total space used. At least I know I have all that room, if I were to need it. Now, I have more room for those epic e-mails from my friends and family, he he he. Man, I wonder if they're ever gonna force us all to start paying. Eeks, I sure can wait patiently for that day to come.

Dude, it amazes me how childish people can be at work. Today, I straight saw one guy cover his ears cuz he didn't wanna hear what the other guy was saying! I know, I know, WTF?

"To some, needing 'to be right' becomes more important than 'doing the right thing.' "